Posts Tagged ‘Liberty’
Without Adjectives
Originally posted at C4SS by Anna Morgenstern If you have an interest in a stateless society, you need to understand what the state is. Otherwise you could end up chasing shadows, and many self-proclaimed anarchists often do so, unfortunately. When you look around you, you can see examples of its handiwork everywhere. Every police car you [...]
The National Inventory Of Human Beings Vs. The Migrant
Are you authorized to exist within the confines of the state? Have you been cataloged and placed in big brothers database? The right has gone on a rampage against migrants. The hypocritical belief seems to be that liberty and freedom should be afforded to those that are born into it seems to contradict many of their stances on the constitution. [...]
The Police State’s ‘Cardinal Rule’: The Mundane Must Submit
British officer: You call yourself a patriot, and a loyal subject to King George?Hawkeye: I don't call myself "subject" to much of anything.Hawkeye explains the foundational tenet of the American worldview to a self-important armed government functionary offended by the frontiersman's principled defiance; from the 1992 version of Last of the [...]
Statism and Myth as a Tool of Survival and Perpetuation Part VII: The State and the Law
“Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.” - John Adams, letter to George Wythe There are reasons why we impose [...]
Limitations and Understanding: The Individual Above the State
When considering the state and its proper function in society, we must first begin with the notion of what a state is under various forms of society. In the totalitarian society, the state is the source of power and possesses absolute control over property. In the democratic society, the majority possesses power up to and including the power [...]
Two Party System Tyrants!
“It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration….agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one….against another….it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption…thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of [...]